Everyone knows that the 2008 Global Economic Collapse was caused primarily by banks’ unregulated casino-style gambling. Instead of blackjack and slots, the banks bet massively on financial derivatives known as a “credit default swaps,” which Warren Buffett famously called “weapons of financial mass destruction.” But what most people don’t know is that the criminal banks are ignoring Buffett’s warning and once again betting massively on swaps, to the tune of over $30 TRILLION – 8 times the budget of the United States Government and more than the entire value of the U.S. stock market! Now that the banks have reopened the casino doors, experts predict that these financial WMDs will take down the global economy worse than we’ve ever seen. And there’s only ONE THING you can do to protect yourself.

Big Banks Gamble with YOUR Money

Credit default swaps were invented by banking conglomerate JP Morgan in 1994. Simply put, a credit default swap is an unregulated type of insurance policy against loans going bad. So as banks wrote millions of dangerous loans during the housing bubble, they made an unbelievable fortune selling insurance policies – swaps – on those loans.

But there’s one HUGE problem: When you sell insurance policies, you better hope that most buyers don’t need to collect on them. It’s just like earthquake insurance: as long as there’s no earthquake, insurance companies make a fortune on earthquake insurance. But as soon as there’s a massive earthquake, insurance companies suddenly go out of business and homeowners are left holding the bag. This is exactly why Warren Buffet called swaps financial WMDs – because they are as destructive as an atomic bomb.

And here’s what happened: When the housing bubble burst and millions of loans when bad, banks were suddenly on the hook to pay the swap-buyers hundreds of billions of dollars. And just like earthquake insurers, they didn’t have the money to pay them.

What’s worse, other financial institutions had all kinds of counterparty arrangements with these massive banks, so the whole entire system fell like a house of cards. And you, the American taxpayer, spent trillions of dollars to bail out the “Too Big to Fail” criminal banks. But not before the entire global economy collapsed during the 2008 crisis, costing average Americans trillions in their investments and retirement accounts.

History Is About to Repeat Itself – Only Worse

The scary truth is, nothing has changed. In fact, things are now MUCH worse than in 2008, despite Buffett’s warning. After YOU bailed out the banks and not a single banker was put in jail, the banks turned around and reopened the casino doors. Today, the largely unregulated credit default swap market is now a staggering $30 TRILLION and growing! How much is $30 trillion? Take a look:

So what happens THIS TIME when $30 trillion in financial weapons of mass destruction blow up in the bankers’ faces? Well, one thing is for sure: Governments and central banks no longer have the bankroll to bail out the banks! So that only means one thing: Total collapse of the global banking system!

If you thought a 20-30% dip in your portfolio was bad after 2008, try an 80% collapse when the banking system completely falls apart! Or, the entire financial and banking system comes down like a house of cards. Total meltdown. And this time, The Fed and the U.S. Government won’t be there to prop up the stock market and recoup your gains after just a few years. THIS collapse could be deeper and longer-lasting than any we’ve seen before – even worse than the Great Depression!

Protect Yourself Now, Before It’s Too Late

Don’t fool yourself into believing you’re protected just because you are not personally invested in the financial weapons of mass destruction. Just like in 2008, when the giant banks and other financial institutions collapse due to bad bets on credit default swaps, ANYONE invested in bank-issued paper investments will be taken down with the banks. This includes everyone from national governments to large institutions to average savers & investors.

So, how do you protect yourself when the entire system collapses? The answer: Do what Buffett did: Put a percentage of your savings, retirement & wealth in Gold & Silver – the #1 asset class that sits OUTSIDE of the financial system and in fact GROWS when paper assets fail. And Gold & Silver have ZERO exposure to the credit default swap market. When Buffett saw the markets on the verge of collapse, he bought 4,000 tons of silver, weighing more than TEN Boeing 747s! Why? Because Gold & Silver have survived every fiat currency and every economy the world’s ever known and have been the wealth protector of choice for over 5,000 years.

As evidence, Gold DOUBLED in the years after the financial collapse of 2008, while Silver increased over 5 times during the same period!

So remind yourself what it was like when Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns collapsed and your entire portfolio took a nosedive after 2008. Are you willing to go through that and worse, knowing that the U.S. Government and The Fed no longer have enough money-printing ability to once again bail out the financial markets and prop up the stock market? Can you really endure an 80% loss of your savings, retirement or wealth? Wouldn’t you rather do what Warren Buffett did and GROW your wealth while everyone else loses theirs? Then get into Gold & Silver. NOW. Before it’s too late for you and your children.

REAL inflation is killing this country, regardless of the lies we’re being told. Right now, the Obama administration, the Federal Reserve, and the bank-controlled mainstream media continue to claim that inflation is low and completely under control, despite the fact that the prices of things we really need are rising at a breakneck pace. Whether food, housing, or education, we’re all choking on runaway inflation that is actually 5 times what the government claims! So as the lies about inflation persist, we are actually stuck in a spiral of runaway inflation that will cripple the U.S. economy and destroy your savings & retirement. And not even the record-setting stock market can protect you from its wrath. In fact, only ONE thing can.

Government Inflation Data Is a Lie

At a recent Fed meeting, Janet Yellen told the mainstream media how inflation is just “noise” and that it’s fine and coming in line with the Fed’s 2% target. Hopefully you can eat “noise,” because you certainly can’t use it to buy food. Of course, you know that the government’s claims of 2% inflation is a bunch of hogwash if you eat food, heat your home, drive a car, go to a doctor, educate your kids, or pay for housing.

The lie begins with the way the inflation rate is calculated. Since the 1970s, the government has manipulated its official formula for inflation more than 20 times, and at this point it bears so little relation to reality that it is essentially meaningless. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, one of the voices of reason who worked at Treasury under Reagan, put this in a historical perspective:

“During the Clinton regime, the Boskin Commission rigged the inflation measure in order to cheat Social Security recipients out of their cost-of-living adjustments. Anyone who purchases food, fuel, or anything knows that inflation is much higher than the officially reported number.”

So we have to ask, do these criminals do their own food shopping? Do they fill up their own gas tanks? Heat their homes? How foolish do they think we are? And how long do they think they can keep this rigged money-printing Ponzi scheme going before REAL inflation becomes hyper-inflation and completely guts our standard of living and destroys our economy?

The REAL Inflation Numbers Are Scary

By stripping away all the bank-controlled government propaganda and lies, and simply looking at real numbers and real data, the reality of inflation becomes crystal clear. In the graph below that covers the last 14 years, you see that while the government’s consumer price index (CPI) only rose 39% and the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation only rose 32%, the real data behind the rising cost of goods & services tells a much different story. Crude oil rose 314%, a dozen eggs rose 106%, college tuition rose 68%, housing rose 50%, and so on. But Janet Yellen doesn’t want you to worry, because that’s just “noise.”

The reality of this chart is clear: If inflation were calculated the same way it was back when Reagan took office, the REAL inflation rate today is actually 10% per year — 5 times what the government claims! So, why is the government lying about inflation? Because inflation is an insidious tool used by governments and bankers to essentially steal wealth from their citizens, manipulate interest rates, falsify GDP, and create a false sense of security. Inflation has been around for as long as the dollar has been decoupled from gold, and it has only gone in one direction – UP!

How REAL Inflation Boosts Gold & Silver

The best way to judge the effects of REAL inflation is to examine the price of REAL physical assets like gold & silver. In 1913, when the Fed was created, a $20 bill and a $20 gold piece were of EQUAL VALUE. Today, that same $20 paper bill is worth a paltry 85 cents, and that same $20 gold piece is worth over $1400! In 1964, a new car sold for $2000. If you bought $2000 in gold in 1964, it is worth over $75,000 today! And if you bought $2000 in silver in 1964, it is worth over $45,000 today! This means that the same $2000 in precious metals still buys you a nice new luxury car, while $2000 saved in greenbacks will barely buy you an old broken-down jalopy.

Just since 2000, gold rose 400% and silver rose 500%. And since 2008, when Obama took office and the Fed put the printing presses on full speed ahead, food prices have risen 50% and gas prices have risen 70%. But gold & silver have DOUBLED! Which means that by storing wealth in precious metals like gold and silver — the oldest form of real money — your purchasing power exceeds real inflation, providing you a significant savings windfall.

Can’t the Stock Market Protect Me?

With the stock market hitting new highs just a few years after the global financial collapse, many people think the stock market is the best place to protect their savings & retirement from runaway inflation. Tragically, nothing can be further from the truth. Even with the stock market achieving record highs, the DOW has only increased a paltry 2% per year in the years after 2000. Just look at how that compares to inflation and gold:

After 2000:

DOW: Up 2% per year

REAL Inflation: Up 10% per year

Gold: Up 13% per year!

So even with the DOW’s record gains, you LOST a significant portion of your savings & retirement after 2000 because of runaway inflation. In other words, your small annual stock gains were trumped by the REAL cost increase of goods & services. Meanwhile, gold outpaced REAL inflation by a significant margin, meaning any savings & retirement you kept in gold survived REAL inflation and even earned you significant profit!

The BEST Way to Protect Yourself from REAL Inflation

So as the government continues to destroy the value of your dollars and inflate every cost that is essential to you, gold continues to be the greatest protector against unbacked paper currencies and an excellent hedge against runaway inflation. Gold and silver have outlasted every paper fiat currency every invented by governments and central banks throughout history, and they’ve outperformed every single other asset class on earth since 2000. Gold and silver also offer significant advantages in the form of privacy, liquidity and security that the modern financial system cannot.

Considering gold and silver’s historic track record and their proven ability to protect you from runaway inflation, you can’t afford to wait another minute to diversify a portion of your savings out of dollars, out of the bank, and into real physical gold and silver.

The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, has issued a frightening new report warning that a third of biggest banks in the world are so weak, that their problems could not be solved even by a recovery and rising interest rates. In other words, nothing can save the banks. The IMF’s report makes it clear why the banks are failing: the Fed’s zero-interest-rate policy has killed bank profits. And this time, the Fed and Treasury don’t have the ammo to bail out the banks when they collapse. So if you want to protect your savings & retirement before the next banking collapse, you better act now.

The Global Banking System Is in Deep Trouble

According to the IMF’s shocking new report, about a third of European banks, with $8.5 trillion in assets, and a quarter of U.S. banks, with $3.2 trillion in assets, are “too weak to recover.” “Too weak to recover” is regulator-speak for “doomed.” Yes, the IMF is warning that a third of the world’s major banks are doomed.

And why are they doomed? Because weak bank profitability has emerged as a key challenge that won’t be solved by a cyclical recovery. In fact, European banks are earning less than half their 2004-2006 average profits.

Why is this happening? In part, because the global economy is in the tank, regardless of what politicians and Wall Street cheerleaders keep telling us. But also, because central bankers have imposed zero interest rates and negative interest rates on the world which have killed bank profits. The banks simply can’t earn enough money from loans with interest rates being so low.

The other problem – which is hard to sympathize with – is that the pitiful banksters simply aren’t allowed to do all the exotic types of gambling they were doing prior to 2008, which earned them a lot of money. That is, until the whole Ponzi scheme came crashing down and we were forced to bail them out.

Can Anything Be Done to Save the Banks?

The IMF report calls for urgent and comprehensive action, stressing that reform, especially in many European countries, “can no longer be postponed.” What reform are they referring to? For one, they’d like to see interest rates rising again. But with the global economy in the tank and central banks scared to death to raise interest rates, don’t count on rising rates anytime soon.

The IMF would also like to see world governments weaken regulations on the banks – the same regulations slapped on banks only a few years ago to prevent them from taking down the entire global economy again!

So think about it. We’re faced with two frightening options: let the banks fail and endure another global economic collapse, or let the banks return to the casino and take down the world economy again. That’s one hell of a choice.

And what happens if we do nothing? The IMF warns, “In some cases, weak banks will have to exit and banking systems will have to shrink.” That’s such a nice way of saying “a huge segment of our global banking system will collapse and take down the world economy!”

What Happens When the Banks Fail?

The writing is on the wall, and even the IMF sees it: the banks are going to fail. It’s not a matter of if, but when. And the scary reality this time is that the Fed and Treasury no longer have the ammo to bail out the banks when they do fail.

The Fed already spent trillions bailing out the banks a few years ago, and the Treasury has already pumped up our national debt to nearly $20 trillion in a desperate effort to save the economy and the stock market. There is simply no ammo left to fight this war. Our economy is doomed.

Act Now While You Still Can

The good news is, you don’t have to go down with the banks this time. Get a portion of your savings & retirement in the one asset class that thrives when the global financial industry tanks: gold & silver.

We all remember what happened the last time the global banking industry came crashing down in 2008. Gold DOUBLED in the years after the crash, while silver increased over 5 times during the same period!

So protect your savings & retirement now, before you have nothing left to protect.

“Bringing back the gold standard would be wonderful. We’d have a standard on which to base our money.” — Donald Trump

For the first time in a century, we’ll have a man in the White House who believes in gold. President Trump famously accepted gold from tenants of his skyscrapers and has invested millions in gold himself. And now as president, Trump has vowed to rescue the nation’s currency by reinvesting the nation in gold.

This leaves only two possibilities: Trump will succeed in returning the nation to the gold standard and gold will skyrocket. Or the banksters will prevent Trump from succeeding, the dollar will collapse, and gold will skyrocket anyway. Either way, this is the giant historical moment gold has been waiting for. And it’s time for you to join Trump and back your savings & retirement with the world’s true, physical store of wealth.

All Fiat Currencies Collapse

“Fiat” currency is paper currency backed by nothing tangible. As opposed to “sound money” which is was backed by gold or some other valuable commodity, a fiat currency is backed by nothing more than faith in the government.

The U.S. dollar has been a fiat currency since Nixon closed the gold window in 1971 in what was the greatest heist in American history. The scary fact is, the average life span of a fiat currency is 40 years, and the U.S. dollar has now exceeded 40 years as a fiat currency!

Prior to 1933 and for well over 100 years, the dollar was backed by gold, and $20 bought you an ounce of gold. But after the government stole all U.S. citizens’ gold in 1933 for a $20 paper certificate, gold was revalued at $35, meaning the dollar was devalued by 43% overnight and all foreign and domestic holders of dollars were effectively robbed.

After Nixon closed the gold window completely in 1971, it took $67 to buy an ounce of gold, devaluing the U.S. dollar by 50% again. Today, it takes well over a thousand U.S. dollars to buy that same ounce of gold. Why? Because the U.S. dollar is now nothing more than a fast-declining Federal Reserve note backed by a corrupt government that is saddled with $20 trillion in unpayable debt.

Just take a look at the graph below. It shows the lifespan of dominant currencies going back 600 years. Notice that the U.S. dollar has now been the dominant currency for 88 years, about the same length of time as its predecessors:

So when you combine the lifespan of dominant currencies throughout history with the fact that we’re entering the “Crisis” generation, it’s obvious why experts say that the U.S. dollar’s days as the world’s reserve currency are coming to a climactic end.

The Only Answer is Gold

Donald Trump is now the president. And he realizes the only way to save the dollar is by reinvesting the nation in gold. But to do so, President Trump will have to battle an army of politicians and bankers who will go to their deaths trying to preserve the modern financial system which is rigged for the wealthy class.

If Trump is successful, gold will be king. Because in order for gold to back our nation’s economy, gold will have to skyrocket in price, perhaps 10 times or more! And if Trump is unsuccessful, the status quo will continue, the dollar is doomed to collapse, and gold will skyrocket because… that’s what gold has done for over 5,000 years when nations and currencies collapse.

Either way, follow President Trump’s lead: Remove at least some of your savings & retirement from the dollar-backed, paper-based financial system and protect it with the one asset that has outlasted every fiat currency ever invented for the last 5,000 years: Gold.

The broken political and criminal banking systems we have today are reliant on endless debt accumulation for their survival. So to enable politicians and bankers to carry out their will, the Federal Reserve has printed money at a breakneck pace with zero accountability to the American taxpayer.

Meanwhile, the president – whether red or blue – has done nothing to stop it for decades. Why? Because the Fed chief is the most powerful human on earth, period. And he or she does not answer to either side of the political aisle. So neither Trump or Clinton can or will do anything to stop what the Fed has already set in motion.

The tragic result of this massive Federal Reserve money-printing has been a systematic destruction of wealth and an enormous rise in REAL inflation. Without anyone in power to put a halt to the Fed’s destructive policies, this election just guaranteed $2500 gold.

Politicians & Bankers: An Unholy Marriage

When it comes to money, there is no democracy or freedom, and there are no nations or citizens. Money is ruled by a plutocracy of financial institutions. They make the laws, they rule the world, and they move or remove anyone that doesn’t promote or support their agenda. And in order for them to survive and achieve “growth,” they rely on the constant accumulation of new public DEBT.

In a monetary system where every dollar is created from debt, the system becomes a Ponzi scheme and only works until it collapses. This is illustrated throughout history, as every civilization and every paper currency has imploded under huge debt loads and a systemic lack of solvency.

Debt Has Doomed the Nation & the Dollar

In January of 2001, the national debt stood at $5.7 trillion. By January of 2009, the national debt had ballooned to around $11 trillion – a doubling of U.S. debt in 8 years! Obama came into office in 2009 promising hope and change. But did he really change anything in terms of our debilitating national debt? Absolutely not.

At the command of the Federal Reserve, our national debt has skyrocketed to over $20 trillion. By the time Obama leaves office, the Fed will have increased the national debt 4 times in the span of two presidencies. The chart below shows the dramatic rise in U.S. debt since 2001:

Everyone knows you can’t stockpile $20 trillion in debt without serious consequences. What serious consequences? The chart below shows the alarming loss in value of the U.S. dollar versus other currencies since 2001:

As you can see, the U.S. Dollar lost 33% of its value versus other currencies after 2001!

Debt Has Skyrocketed Gas & Gold

As the Federal Reserve drove up debt to record numbers, what happened to gold? The chart below shows the tremendous increase in gold’s value after 2001:

As you can see, gold increased over 5 TIMES in value after 2001! And this is including gold’s correction in 2013. So not only did gold increase 5 times after 2001, it’s once again a great value at these levels.

Where Are We Headed?

The U.S. Treasury tells us that the U.S. debt will reach $25 trillion by the end of 2021, regardless of the new president. That’s a staggering 25% increase in U.S. debt from where we are today! Why will this happen? Because neither party has shown any serious commitment whatsoever to reduce government spending. And this will only result in further destruction of the U.S. dollar until the dollar finally collapses and ceases to be the world’s reserve currency, just as ALL global currencies have failed throughout history.

And based upon Treasury’s debt projections, here is where some experts predict gold could be going:

2017 US Debt = 21T | Gold = $1,450/oz.

2018 US Debt = 21.7T | Gold = $1,625/oz.

2019 US Debt = 22.6T | Gold = $1950/oz.

2020 US Debt = 23.5T | Gold = $2,225/oz.

2021 US Debt = 25T | Gold = $2,500/oz.

As the Fed rockets us to $25 trillion in debt, these projections put gold at nearly $2500/oz. by 2021!

Protect Yourself Now before the Next Collapse

It is a catastrophe that one person, like Janet Yellen or Ben Bernanke, can control the price of everything. But that’s the centrally-planned world we live in, and that is precisely why your wealth doesn’t and shouldn’t care who wins in 2016 or beyond. According to the Fed and the U.S. Treasury, debt will explode in the next decade or until the Ponzi scheme collapses. As a result, the economic system will crash, the dollar will lose its global reserve status, and gold will soar.

So when it comes to your money, you need to fight the forces bankrupting our nation and destroying the value of your savings & wealth. How do you protect yourself? The answer is obvious: gold & silver. As the charts above clearly demonstrate, gold & silver track U.S. debt more than any other asset on earth. So as the skyrockets to $25 trillion by 2021, where do you think your money needs to be?

Islamic law has long prevented Muslims from owning gold & silver as an investment. But a new interpretation of Islamic law will open the gold market to 1.6 billion new Muslim investors – 20% of the world’s population! You don’t have to be a Muslim or even agree with the Muslim religion to understand what this means: Gold & silver are likely to skyrocket. And if you’ve been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the best opportunity to invest in gold & silver, you better get on the train now before it leaves the station.

Muslims Legalize Gold & Silver Investments

Muslims around the world adhere to Sharia law, which is based on the Koran and other texts. Historically, earning money from interest and paying interest on loans are prohibited by Sharia law. Muslims are allowed to invest in stocks, as long as the company isn’t involved in something deemed unethical such as the alcohol industry.

But up until now, Muslims have only been allowed to own gold & silver as jewelry or to use as a currency. Thus, Muslims haven’t bought much gold or silver throughout the ages. That’s about to change in a big way.

The organization that sets Sharia standards for Islamic finance around the world, along with the World Gold Council, have come together to legalize gold & silver as investments for 1.6 billion Muslims around the world! A final resolution will be launched on December 6 at the World Islamic Banking Conference in Bahrain. After December, the entire Muslim world will be allowed to invest in gold & silver.

Gold & Silver Set to Skyrocket

And what will happen when Muslims are finally allowed to invest in gold & silver? The World Gold Council estimates that the Sharia gold standard could equal “hundreds of tons” of new demand from the Muslim world in just the first few months. Long-term, this monumental new demand is expected to skyrocket the price of gold & silver.

How do we know Muslims will skyrocket gold? Because gold has outperformed all major Islamic asset classes including REITs, the Takaful index, the Dow Jones Islamic Equities Index and the Dow Jones Sukuk Index. Gold has also massively outperformed the major currencies used in the Islamic world. Since 2000, gold has risen 400-800% against the most widely used Islamic currencies!

So now you understand why the Islamic world is jumping at the chance to own gold & silver. The question is, how big of an impact will Muslims have on gold? As the World Gold Council points out, Islamic finance is growing on average by 16% per year, and Islamic financial assets are projected to reach $2 trillion by 2020. So a very conservative 1% allocation to gold would increase gold demand by a staggering 500 tons by 2020!

Record Competition for Physical Gold & Silver

There’s something extremely important about the new Islamic law that you need to understand. Under the new law, gold & silver investments must be in the form of PHYSICAL gold or at least backed by physical gold.

Why is this so important? Because it means that when 1.6 billion Muslims suddenly rush into the gold & silver markets, the demand for PHYSICAL gold & silver will go off the charts. And as you well know, physical gold & silver are not infinite. They are called “precious” metals because they are limited and valuable.

So if you are like most smart investors and want to protect your savings & retirement with PHYSICAL gold & silver, you must understand that the competition for physical gold & silver is about to become a lot more ferocious.

But if you get in now, not only are you guaranteed to have physical gold & silver in your possession for when you really need it, you’ll be poised for the big returns when 1.6 billion Muslims enter the gold & silver markets.

Again, you don’t have to be Muslim or even agree with the Muslim religion to understand what this all means for gold & silver. You just need to protect your savings & retirement now while there’s still time to load up on physical gold & silver.

The days of banks being trusted institutions to help protect your savings & retirement are over. First, it was the banks gambling on derivatives that blew up the global economy in 2008 and cost citizens trillions in savings & retirement. Then, it was the banks turning over customer accounts to the IRS & police for total seizure without due process of law. Next came reports that banks are abolishing our ability to use & store cash. And now comes a frightening report that banks have agreed to pay $81 BILLION in restitution & penalties for criminal & civil abuses against the public and their own customers. So more than ever, if you want real protection of your savings & retirement, you better move it out of the bank. Fast.

Banks Commit Historic Fraud against the Public & Customers

In a recent report by McClatchy detailing the millions in speaking fees the Clintons have received from banks, McClatchy drops a bombshell: the same banks that have been supporting the former (and possibly next) president of the United States have agreed to pay nearly $100 BILLION in restitution & penalties to resolve federal investigations into alleged corruption and to avert criminal and civil trials. In other words, the banks paid their way out of jail after defrauding you and me for years. Some of the crimes & penalties are as follows:

Goldman Sachs

The Bankers’ Fraud Continues

While these financial penalties represent historic records, they are a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of billions banks earned from scamming the public & its own customers for years. Yet not a single banker has gone to jail after committing these horrible, criminal offenses!

And here’s the really scary part: Despite paying $81 billion in restitution & penalties, banks are still gambling with your money. Congress recently passed a new spending bill that allows banks to once again use your deposited money to bet on those insanely risky derivatives that caused the global financial collapse of 2008! So apparently the Clintons aren’t the only politicians in bed with the banks.

What’s more, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and other publications have exposed the banks for conspiring with the IRS & police to confiscate customer accounts without any due process of law. So with this kind of collusion between the government & banks, is it any wonder that the government has refused to jail one single banker for their massive fraud?!

Get Your Money Out of the Bank and Into a Safe Place

So do you want to remain vulnerable to banking corruption, or do you want to fully protect your savings & retirement? To get true protection, there’s one asset class that sits outside the system, is completely private, and cannot be tracked and controlled by the government or banks: physical gold & silver.

Physical gold & silver have been the world’s greatest wealth protectors for over 5,000 years, shielding citizens from government & banking corruption during the worst crises in history. And physical gold & silver cannot be instantly seized with the stroke of a keyboard. So invest in gold & silver now, before you have nothing left to protect.

The war on your savings & retirement continues. In a stunning move, Charles Schwab has started informing its clients that “at least 80% of the fund’s net assets will be invested solely in U.S. government securities…” and removed from money market funds. In other words, Schwab is the first of many brokerages to cave to alarming government pressure and begin permanently unwinding trillions in money market-funds, rotating them into government debt.

Why? Because our insolvent government needs YOU to finance its unsustainable $20 trillion debt. Luckily, there’s still one way to protect your savings & retirement before the entire house of cards crashes down.

Negative Interest Rates Force You to Buy US Treasuries

As widely reported, the Federal Reserve is moving steadily toward negative interest rates, or NIRP. In other words, you pay the banks to hold your hard-earned savings. Negative rates are the Fed’s desperate, last-ditch effort to force American citizens to finance our staggering national debt.

The logic is simple: If we citizens have to pay a hefty fee to keep our savings on deposit – and get no returns – then naturally we’ll want to pull our money out of savings. The goal of the Fed and U.S. Gov’t is to force us all to invest our money where THEY want us to invest: in U.S. Treasuries.

Why? Because they know the U.S. will implode under the weight of unsustainable debt if the American people don’t swallow up Treasuries.

The Cash Problem

The first problem with this strategy is, what happens if American citizens realize they are being conned into a toxic investment, and decide to just pull their cash out of the banks and store it themselves? Ah, well the government has a solution to that problem: Ban cash altogether.

As we’ve reported for months, government & banks around the world are taking swift action to abolish the use and storage of cash. The government has started seizing citizen bank accounts with no due process. The IRS has threatened foreign nations and financial institutions across the globe to turn over your private data and financial accounts, with the threat of financial warfare if they don’t comply. And the Department of Justice and local police have started seizing cash from innocent citizens. Yes, the executive branch of government has been aggressively taking citizens’ cash without due process of law.

So in short, your ability to take your savings out of banks and store it in cash is coming to an end. And even if you do take possession of your savings in cash, how secure do you feel when the government comes knocking on your door asking about your stockpile of cash?

Preventing the Riots

So if we citizens have no ability to hold our own cash savings, and storing it in a bank is too expensive, then the government and banks believe they can force us to buy U.S. debt. So the reason brokerages like Schwab are moving your money into Treasuries now is to prevent us from rioting in the near future. Or at least that’s what they hope.

Think about it. If literally trillions of YOUR dollars sitting in money market funds suddenly go negative interest, this will cause you to lose billions in savings & retirement to the banks for the privilege of holding YOUR money. There would be rioting in the streets. So Schwab and others are taking preemptive action now to move your money into U.S. debt.

The returns on Treasuries are paltry, but at least they’re not NEGATIVE. That is, until the entire house of cards comes crashing down, the U.S. defaults on its debts, and the stock market crashes because there’s literally nothing left to keep it artificially propped up. Then you will lose your tail.

Convert Your Savings & Retirement into Gold & Silver

There’s only ONE way to protect your savings & retirement from negative interest rates, the inevitable stock market crash, and the national debt disaster: gold & silver. Gold & silver sit outside the system, are completely private, and cannot be tracked and controlled by the government or banks.

Physical gold & silver have been the world’s greatest wealth protectors for over 5,000 years, shielding citizens from government & banking collapse during the worst crises in history. And physical gold & silver cannot be instantly seized with the stroke of a keyboard. So invest in gold & silver now, before you have nothing left to protect.

The stock market has risen to record levels. The politicians and Wall Street cheerleaders try to tell us that the economy is doing great again, despite the fact that wages are stagnant, real unemployment is sky high, and college graduates can’t get out of their parents’ basements. But as Yahoo Finance is reporting, major public companies are borrowing mass amounts of cash to artificially pump up their own stock prices to record levels, and the whole house of cards is about to come crashing down. And anyone who waits to get their money OUT of the stock market and INTO a safe haven asset like gold will have no one to blame but themselves.

People get very emotional about major elections, particularly when it comes to how elections impact their money. Yet the scary reality of our modern political system is, your vote doesn’t matter when it comes to who’s really in power. While there are many systemic problems in banking, taxation, trade and monetary policy, none of these systemic problems changes in any meaningfully way by who controls the House, Senate or Presidency.

Regardless of changes in party power, politicians don’t hold the REAL power in Washington. No, the sad fact is, the election has already been decided. And the winner is the banking industry, at the command of the Fed. The Republicans & Democrats have done nothing in a generation to stop the Fed & banking industry from launching us off the fiscal cliff. And neither will Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. So if you want to protect your savings & retirement from the impending global crisis, you’ll need to do more than vote.

The Real Power in Washington

When it comes to money, there is no democracy or freedom, and there are no nations or citizens. Money is ruled by a plutocracy of financial institutions. They make the laws, they rule the world, and they move or remove anyone that doesn’t promote or support their agenda. Want proof? Just consider how the banks are now assisting the IRS in confiscating bank accounts of INNOCENT U.S. citizens, and even reporting their own account holders to the police!

What’s more, in order for the power-brokers to survive and achieve “growth,” they rely on the constant accumulation of new public debt. In a monetary system where every dollar is created from debt, the system becomes a Ponzi scheme and only works until it collapses. This is illustrated throughout history, as every civilization and every paper currency has imploded under huge debt loads and a systemic lack of solvency.

Debt Has Doomed the Nation & the Dollar

In January of 2001, when Bush took office and Republicans controlled the Congress, the national debt stood at $5.7 trillion. Within 8 years, the national debt had ballooned to around $11 trillion – a doubling of U.S. debt in 8 years!

Obama came into office in 2009 promising hope and change. But did he really change anything in terms of our debilitating national debt? Absolutely not. At the command of the Federal Reserve, our national debt will skyrocket to over $20 trillion by the time Obama leaves office. In short, the Fed will have increased the national debt 5 times in the span of two presidencies — regardless of which party was in power!

The chart below shows the dramatic rise in U.S. debt since 2001:

Everyone knows you can’t stockpile $20 trillion in debt without serious consequences. What serious consequences? The chart below shows the alarming loss in value of the U.S. dollar versus other currencies after 2001:

As you can see, the U.S. Dollar lost 33% of its value versus other currencies after 2001!

Debt Has Skyrocketed Gold

As the Federal Reserve drove up debt to record numbers, what happened to gold? The chart below shows the tremendous increase in gold’s value after 2001:

As you can see, gold increased over 5 TIMES in value after 2001! And this is including gold’s correction in 2013. So not only did gold increase 5 times after 2001, it’s once again a great value at these levels.

Where Are We Headed?

The U.S. Treasury tells us that the U.S. debt will reach $28 trillion by 2025, regardless of which party wins the presidency in 2016 and beyond! That’s a staggering 43% increase in U.S. debt from where we are today. So based upon Treasury’s debt projections of $28 trillion, this would project gold at nearly $2500/oz.!

Why will this happen? Because neither party has shown any serious commitment whatsoever to reduce government spending. Both Trump and Clinton have been cozy with bankers for decades, and both have promised hundreds of billions in new infrastructure projects once they become president. So their election will only result in further destruction of the U.S. dollar until the dollar finally collapses and ceases to be the world’s reserve currency, just as ALL global currencies have failed throughout history.

Do More Than Vote

So does getting a new president end the political games? No. Will our debt problem go away? No. Will we get growth all of a sudden without all the “stimulus” spending and entitlements the Republicans say they want to end? No. Will the growth come even if the gov’t keeps spending and the Fed keeps printing? No. And most importantly, will the Fed be able to raise rates regardless of who wins, and will the debt trajectory change? No and No.

We will be at $28 trillion in debt by 2025 according to the U.S. Treasury. The Fed will keep printing money and rates will stay in the basement for as far as far the eye can see thanks to our massive debt. The writing is on the wall.

The bottom line is, the election will have zero impact on the current trajectory of the price of gold, so gold is moving much higher. Gold is math and mathematics is a science. Politics are not.

So if you want a new party in government, vote. But if you want to protect your savings & retirement, buy gold & silver.